Lung cancer screening

Lung cancer is a growing problem around all the world 🌏 and in Cambodia 🇰🇭.

Lung cancer screening includes:

1) consultation with Medical oncologist,

2) low-dose CT-scan chest

ℹ️ Who has to come for Lung cancer screening? These are people from risk groups:

♦️ smokers: tobacco, marijuana etc.,

♦️ people between 50 and 80 y.o., who quit smoking in the past 15 years,

♦️ secondhand-smokers (ex., non-smoking wives of smokers),

♦️ people after exposure to chemicals (at work, living place): formaldehyde, asbestos, silica, chromium, arsenic, nickel compounds, PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), vinyl chloride, wood dust,

♦️ people after exposure to high-energy radiation (example, after radiation therapy of Hodgkin's lymphoma),

♦️ people with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). Asthma and tuberculosis appear to be risk factors too. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis may increase the risk of lung cancer by up to 2,

♦️ people with some infectious diseases: HIV, human papillomavirus (HPV),

♦️ people, having 1st- and 2d-degree relatives with lung cancer,

♦️ people, who are for a long time on ACE inhibitors (ramipril, lisinopril, coversyl),

♦️ people with elevated platelet count.

♦️ Kindly note, that there some occupations, associated with an increased lung risk include: truck driving 🚛, sandblasting🔅, metal working 🛠, printing 🖨, ceramic making🏺, uranium mining ☢️, glass manufacturing🔮

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